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“If you're building a social product, you're still living in the last century if your product doesn't work on Facebook.”

Ifs Stills Lasts Social Century Building Products

Author:Max Levchin

“In so far as he is a creator, the artist does not belong to a social group already moulded by a culture, but to a culture which he is by way of building up.”

Way Doe Artist Culture Social Groups Building Creator Building Up Social Groups

Author:Andre Malraux

“I did a series of classes in psychology (at the institute), .. The students that came to that class had children. And over a period of a few years, they decided they wanted a nursery school, a play group (to watch over their children while they were studying). So in one of the garages that was near where we were having the classes, we established a play group area and the students volunteered to supervise. That eventually led to building a state-licensed nursery school, which was approved by the California department of social welfare.”

“The criminal justice system is accurately symbolized by a large sculpture that sits at the foot of the United States attorney's building: four metal circles that interlock. The wheels of justice, as it were, frozen in legal and social gridlock.”

States Social Justice United United States Four Feet Building Criminals Circles Wheels Metals Frozen Sculpture Attorney Justice System Criminal Justice Criminal Justice System Gridlock

Author:Jonathan Larson

“We are not engaged in domestic politics, in church building or in social uplift work, but we are engaged in nation building.”

Culture Nations Social Church Justice Building Diversity Social Justice Uplifting Engaged Nation Building Church Buildings

Author:Marcus Garvey

“Human beings need community. If there are no communities available for constructive ends, there will be destructive, murderous communities... Only the social sector, that is, the nongovernmental, nonprofit organization, can create what we now need, communities for citizens... What the dawning 21st century needs above all is equally explosive growth of the nonprofit social sector in building communities in the newly dominant social environment, the city.”

“Man is constantly building anxiety-structures, like geodesic domes, around his social and religious institutions.”

Men Social Religious Building Anxiety Institutions Structure Domes

Book:The Great Code: The Bible and Literature

Source: The Great Code: The Bible and Literature

“Industry is not a collection of machines and tools and buildings. It is a social entity that has the responsibility of realizing the happiness of those who work in it.”

Social Realizing Responsibility Building Industry Tools Machines Collections Entity

Author:Luis A. Ferre

“Faith can be stirred within the walls of church buildings, but faith is formed and nourished in the waiting rooms of hospitals, helplessly witnessing a thirty-one-year-old sister suffer, holding kids affected by the AIDS epidemic, and being stretched outside of our own social makeup.”

Years Kids Suffering Social Waiting Church Rooms Building Wall Aids Thirty Makeup Affected Hospitals Epidemics Waiting Rooms Aids Epidemic Church Buildings

Author:Josh Ross

“It's not about doing over the living room of someone who has bad taste in color. This is about restoring historic buildings and instilling pride in a community, which can be done through designing new public spaces and social gathering spots.”

Done Artist Social Community Space Rooms Design Building Color Pride Taste Spots Gathering Historic Living Room Restoring Bad Taste

Author:Genevieve Gorder

“One of man's basic concerns is a house - a place to find protection from the rain and elements. But a house can be much more than a building. It is the social context of his family life -\-\ the place where he loves and shares with this closest to him.”

Men House Social Share Building Elements Rain Concern Protection Closest Family Life

Author:Pedro Arrupe

“Perhaps one of the more noteworthy trends of our time is the occupation of buildings accompanied by the taking of hostages. The perpetrators of these deeds are generally motivated by political grievance, social injustice, and the deeply felt desire to see how they look on TV.”

Looks Political Desire Social Felt Building Tvs Injustice Deeds Our Time Occupation Trends Motivated Grievance Hostage Perpetrators Social Injustice

Book:The Fran Lebowitz Reader

Source: The Fran Lebowitz Reader

“Those social behaviors which automatically preclude the building of a democratic world must go - every social limitation of human beings in terms of heredity, whether it be of race, or sex, or class. Every social institution which teaches human beings to cringe to those above and step on those below must be replaced by institutions which teach people to look each other straight in the face.”

Source: And Keep Your Powder Dry: An Anthropologist Looks at America

“High buildings have no genuine advantages, except in speculative gains for banks and land owners. They are not cheaper, they do not help create open space, they destroy the townscape, they destroy social life, they promote crime, they make life difficult for children, they are expensive to maintain, they wreck the open spaces near them, and they damage light and air and view.”

Source: A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction

“... what's been building since the 1980's is a new kind of social Darwinism that blames poverty and crime and the crisis of our youth on a breakdown of the family. That's what will last after this flurry on family values.”

Kind Lasts Values Politics Social Family Poverty Crime Youth Building Crisis Blame Breakdown Darwinism Family Values Social Darwinism

Author:Stephanie Coontz

“A … difference between most system-building in the social sciences and systems of thought and classification of the natural sciences is to be seen in their evolution. In the natural sciences both theories and descriptive systems grow by adaptation to the increasing knowledge and experience of the scientists. In the social sciences, systems often issue fully formed from the mind of one man. Then they may be much discussed if they attract attention, but progressive adaptive modification as a result of the concerted efforts of great numbers of men is rare.”